An Awakening of Heart — A New Opportunity for Humanity

Guest: Howard Martin, Executive Vice President, HeartMath, Inc. During the pandemic, people re-evaluated their priorities and connected with deeper values regarding their relationships with family and work. Despite what it looks like on the news, many became more optimistic about the future as a result. A recent Harris Poll reported, “Sweeping research suggests the future is bright and we are rethinking, resetting, and reimagining our futures for the better. Hope and optimism are increasing, connections with friends and family are strengthening and we are re-prioritizing towards what matters to us most.” Add Heart® Podcast host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., and her guest Howard Martin, Executive Vice President, HeartMath, Inc., talk about the awakening of the heart that is occurring around the world. They discuss a new opportunity that humanity has right now to sustain the awakening of compassion and heart connection without needing a pandemic, disasters, or other stressors to motivate us. It’s in the heart that people access feelings such as compassion, care, kindness, forgiveness, and appreciation that lift us above separation, judgments, and blame. In our deeper heart, we can sense that nothing is going to change until we can start to put our heart first. Caring and genuine heart connections can help to offset stress accumulation from anxiety, fear, or panic, while clearing the mind for effective reasoning, especially when confronted with health, financial, or societal challenges. In the new edition of their book Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Heart’s Intuitive Guidance for Effective Choices and Solutions, released in February 2022, Deborah and Howard share how we can build trust in our heart’s intuitive guidance and how each person’s heart intelligence (heart’s intuitive guidance) can help us connect to higher choices and untapped potentials. The episode closes with a heart meditation that we can use daily to energize our commitment to adding more heart to all of our relationships and connections, knowing that we are each contributing to a shift in humanity’s energies from separation to cooperation and resulting in higher solutions to our global, social, and economic problems. About our guest: Howard Martin has been with HeartMath® Inc. and HeartMath® Institute organizations since their inception in 1991, serving as a key spokesperson and executive. In 1999, he co-authored The HeartMath Solution with Doc Childre*,* published by Harper San Francisco and considered to be a classic and the definitive work on the intelligence of the heart. Howard is also a contributing author of the new book Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Heart’s Intuitive Guidance for Effective Choices and Solutions, re-released in February 2022. He also co-produced, along with Doc Childre, the online video learning program The HeartMath Experience. As a key spokesperson, Howard has conducted countless media interviews on all of the major U.S. television networks, internationally syndicated radio, major magazines, and documentary films as well as conducting online and in-person speaking engagements and training events annually. He speaks internationally on developing the new intelligence needed to navigate life during these changing times and the importance of creating global coherence. For more insights into accessing the heart's intelligence, check out Howard Martin on HeartMath and Heart Coherence, which offers an inspiring interview on building heart coherence and applying these practices in daily life.